Data safety refers to the idea that educators will never look at or utilize student and organizational data if it's not intellectually, emotionally, and professionally safe for them to do so.
Big Ideas
Data needs to be left confidential.
Overall data should be looked at without names to make program decisions. (Taking teacher names away allows for data to be depersonalized a bit and iniate conversations.
Seperate person from practice.
Establish protocols for linkage to the Unique Student ID by determining what data will be collected and where it is housed
Establish protocols for linkage to the Unique Educator ID by determining what data is collected and where it is housed
A balance is needed between allowing individual teacher access to student data so that collaborative discussions can take place that involve individual students for the purpose of improving classroom instruction and maintaining confidentiality of student data. The same is true about discussing effective instruction - there are times that administrators need to know which teachers are showing effective instructional practices and which ones are not seeing gains in student learning. At the same time neither students nor teachers should feel threatened by data, the point is to develop a learning community where continuous improvement is the focus.
Leaders use data in the service of improvement. The role of the leader is to create the conditions that are safe to examine data, make sense of the data, develop plans, move forward with the knowledge gained from the data, and monitor the effectiveness.
Practical Tips
Differnet levels of access allows for some security of information.
Create/assign a unique student identifier (student ID)
Create/assign a unique teacher identifier (teacher ID)
Have limited availability of key personal identification.
Data Safety
Data safety refers to the idea that educators will never look at or utilize student and organizational data if it's not intellectually, emotionally, and professionally safe for them to do so.
Big Ideas
Practical Tips
Resources
[[http://www.mcrel.org/PDF/AssessmentAccountabilityDataUse/5041RR_UnderstandPrincipalData.pdf#search="data]] safety"
Critical Questions for Establishing a Valid Teacher-Student Data Link